July Festival Schedule

First friday of each month at 7-10 pm
Held at Rivermont Presbyterian Church in Enon, Virginia
(in Chesterfield County)

The Black Swamp Arts Festival (BSAF) connects art and the community by presenting an annual music and arts festival and by promoting the arts in the Bowling Green community.

The Black Swamp Arts & Music Festival welcomes submissions for all types of music, theater, performance, and dance.

• Main Stage hosts national and local acts spanning all musical genres. Located between East Wooster and South Prospect streets, it is easily accessible. This stage overlooks the food court and beer garden.
  
• Electronic Stage will feature various artists performing electronica-style music and experimental sounds.  The stage location is at Grumpy Dave's Pub above Easystreet Cafe.
  
• Huntington Bank Courtyard
  Unique music and live entertainment is scattered throughout the Festival site. Every year we add new performers and bring back some past favorites. Keep an eye out for roaming performers or stop by the Huntington Bank Courtyard to see an acoustic set.
  
• Peanut Butter & Rock Teen Stage
  The teen scene has spoken and the Festival has heard! This stage features hot local bands in a teen-friendly environment.
  
• Music History
  View previous musicians who have performed at the Black Swamp Arts Festival over the years.
  

Held at the Carroll County Farm Museum.
Blues, Native American Folk, Bluegrass, Appalachian, Old-Time Dance, Jazz, Black Gospel, Celtic, African Drumming & Dance, World Percussion, Storytelling, Poetry, Children's Festival, Juried Art & Craft Show, Ethnic Food, and more.

Info: Common Ground on the Hill, WMC
Western MD College, Westminster, Maryland 21157

With 6 stages operating continually throughout the daytime, an evening Main Stage, over 60 acts playing over 150 hours of music, there is a wealth of music to hear and discover.

Feast on tasty dishes at our International Food Court.

For the best selection of Festival artists' recordings, music books and accessories, drop by the Home-Made Music tent. The Festival Store offers a complete line of official Folk Festival gear.

Bring your children and join the fun of the Family Area. There's juggling, painting, origami, kite-making, lively supervised games, as well as performances specially programmed for the whole family.

Located in beautiful Birds Hill Provincial Park, which also offers camping. Camping reservations can be made until July 1 by calling: 888.482.2267 or 204.948.3333

Held 26 miles East of Parkersberg Wv on State Senic Highway 47 across from OxBow Rd in Macfarlan Ritchie Co, West Virginia.

Hughes River Promotions is hosting the Hughes River Rally, filled with live entertainment, food and family fun to benefit the Ritchie County, WV, Humane Society.

In today's struggling times, Hughes River Promotions felt the need to step up and help the county offset the rising cost of animal care at the shelter.  "We understand the pressures of today's world.  People are losing their jobs, their cars and being forced to make decisions they thought they would never have to make.  Animals are suffering greatly from today's economy and are often overlooked.  Shelters are receiving animals across the country in record numbers and others are left to fend for themselves while families try to survive."  Hughes River Rally Benefits Ritchie County, WV, Humane Society

Held at Davis & Elkins College, 2.5 hrs. from Charleston, WV, 3 hrs. from Pittsburgh, PA, 4-5 hrs. from D.C. A week-long mountain dulcimer course for Advanced Beginners & up will be taught by Lois Hornbostel. It will cover Cajun and Old-Time Music and dulcimer playing techniques. Jams with Cajun & Creole staff and students, dances, concerts, student showcase. For more info in general, go to the Augusta Heritage Website and go to "Music" or "Theme Weeks".

Held at Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village Park.

$15,000 in prize money. Two days of highly charged competitions including three national titles in Old Time Banjo, Old Time Buckdance and Old Time Clogging.

Other contests:
Old Time Band, Bluegrass Band, Bluegrass Banjo, Dulcimer, Dobro, Harmonica, Jug Band Contest, Contest Fiddle, Old Time Fiddle, Youth Instrumental, Guitar, Mandolin, Free Wheelin' (person who captures the entertaining spirt of Uncle Dave), Old Time Singing

Saturday features a "motorless parade" - historic E. Main St. - 10 AM
Sunday features a gospel show and sing.

Two awards presented:

1. Heritage Award:
   Janice and Bill Birchfield of the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers
   Saturday, 5 pm on stage
   
   
2. Trailblazer Award:
   Thomas Maupin, Old Time Buckdancer
   Friday, 7 pm on stage

Held on the Green River at Camp Keewanee.
Friday 9am through Sunday 7pm
Donations gratefully accepted to cover expenses
Summer day camp facilities including:

• Unfurnished cabins to play music in (no beds)
• Bathrooms and showers
• Picnic pavilion & basketball court
• Camping and parking on flat ground
• Frolicking in the Green River
• Saturday Morning Secular River Immersions
• Midnight Reenactment Vol. 1 Harry Smith Anthology
• Waltzing Potluck Saturday Night
• Clog-a-thon
• Sunday Morning Gospel Sing

The world's largest hammered dulcimer festival.

Held in Evart, Michigan at the Osceola County Fairgrounds and presented by the Original Dulcimer Players Club (ODPC).

The event features not only hammered dulcimers, but most every acoustic string instrument. (fiddle, guitar, bass, mountain dulcimer, banjo, dobro, pennywhistle, harp, autoharp, harp, hurdy gurdy, concertina, uklele, harmonica, mandolin, etc.) Lots of concerts, 220+ workshops, open stage, jamming, and sales booths. Camping available.

Admission for all three and a half days is $3. Camping $10 nightly.

This event takes place at Western Carolina University.

This event had its start in the 1970's at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and has been described by many participants as the "Cadillac" of dulcimer events for its well-planned and large curriculum for mountain dulcimer players.  An abundance of jam session and sing-along choices, both mid-day and evenings for jammers of various experience levels, led by staff.  Evening staff concerts, participants' open stage, Sunday night buffet/get acquainted event, free loaner dulcimers, scholarships, Dulcimer Marketplace, Dulcimer Doctor, chair massages.

To receive a brochure/registration form contact Bobby Hensley

2010 WCU's Mountain Dulcimer Week will offer a Kids' Camp that will run concurrently with Dulcimer Week!  Bring your children or grandchildren with you to Dulcimer Week this year because a class will be offered for kids 4th through 8th grade.  While you're enjoying your skills classes, the kids will be building and decorating their own cardboard dulcimer in addition to learning how to play it.

Other musical activities will include creating instruments using recycled or found objects.  A particular highlight for the kids as part of the week's curriculum will be an afternoon of whitewater rafting on the Nantahala River!

Held at the First Baptist Church North Houston (4422 Lauder Road) This is a new festival in Houston in the hot summertime. Fortunately for all of us it is held inside in the air conditioning.

A few friends got together and decided there needed to be a festival in Houston during the summer. Talk turned into plans and the Bayou City Old Time Music and Dulcimer Festival was born. The organizers created the festival for the fun of it - all money received will go to the headliners, facility and expenses.

There will be food available at the festival, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and snacks.
Workshops in the morning and on request during the afternoon.
Organized jam sessions.
Evening concerts.

Last Saturday of each month: May through August Live Music! Great Vendors!

Held in the Courtyard Plaza --
400 Block of S. Myrtle Ave. in Old Town.
The time is 6:00 to 9:00 PM

A series of events that starts in May and will finish up in August. What a fun way to spend a warm balmy summer evening - great music, shopping and good friends.

There will be live music, lots of great vendors and FREE
music lessons on cool instruments like mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, banjos, spoons, etc. This event is
meant for the whole family and entrance is FREE!

Mountain and Hammered Dulcimers and Autoharps

• Jams
• Workshops
• Concerts
• Open Stage
• Merchant Vendors
• Camping
• Showers
• Pets Allowed

Climate controlled workshop rooms, loding on grounds of historic estate, restaurant, indoor amphitheater.  Featured Performers:  Tull Glazener, Dan Landrum, Mike Fenton!  Reserve rooms now!

Just north of Kansas City.
A week of study in Mountain Dulcimer and Hammered Dulcimer (all levels).
Jam sessions, workshops, open stage, concerts.
Mountain Dulcimer instructors are Allen MacFarlane beginning/novice; Shelly Stevens, intermediate; and Janita Baker, advanced. Hammered Dulcimer instructors are Princess Harris beginning; Linda Thomas, intermediate; and the multi talented Steve Eulberg, advanced.

Near Austin.
Held in the Clute Municipal Park.

• Live music onstage!
• BBQ & Fajita Cook-Off
• Dodge Ball Sting Tournament
• Doubles Horseshoe Pitching Tourmament
• Doubles Washer Pitching Contest
• Haystack Dive
• Mosquito Calling Contest
• Interactive kids events
• Mosquito Chase 5KM Run
• Mr. & Mrs. Mosquito Legs Contest
• O' You Beautiful Doll Contest
• Senior Citizen's Bingo
• Petting Zoo
• Water Slide

The festival is an annual event that is held at the Lake County Historical Society.  Always held the last full weekend in July, on the grounds of the History Center.  The event includes crafters, an encampment in the Jack E. Daniels Living History Village, many varieties of food, seven music stages and children's shows and activities.  This event attracts nearly 10,000 visitors each year.  Jam sessions can be found throughout the grounds. So bring your musical instrument and join in with one of the groups.

For more information:
Little Mountain Website
Look under the News and Events link.

Held at Bonnie Doon Campground. Located at the amazing Boomeria, a private renaissance estate in the lush Santa Cruz mountains, just south of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is an all day event, consisting of workshops (all levels), lots of space for informal jamming & getting acquainted, an inviting setting under lots of redwood trees, swimming, potluck dinner, a 40 rank pipe organ demonstration by P.Q. Boomer (this is really amazing--you can sit inside the organ's works while it's being played!), and an enjoyable evening showcase/jam that highlights the many voices of the dulcimer.

Check for festival updates on the Folk Planet Website


The Redwood Mountain Dulcimer All-Star Collection CD
This outstanding compilation CD celebrates the first 10 years of Redwood Dulcimer Day at Boomeria, Bonny Doon, CA (2001-2010) and features instrumental selections from all the dulcimer artists who have taught at Redwood Dulcimer Day to date.  All proceeds from CD sales benefit future Redwood Dulcimer events and Community Music School of Santa Cruz, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Hear audio clips and purchase your copy (or copies!) here.

Honoring Traditional Music and Dance in the Champlain Valley.
Held in Kingsland Bay State Park on Lake Champlain in Ferrisburgh Vermont.

Held at YMCA Camp Shady Brook, which is located 1 1/2 hours southwest of Denver and 1 hour northwest of Colorado Springs, near the town of Deckers, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The site was originally a 19th century ranch, and the dining lodge is one of the original buildings.

Not just for fiddlers!! Great workshops for fiddle, piano, cello, bass, flute, harp, banjo, guitar, mandolin, hammer dulcimer, singing, contra, square & step dancing! Classes and workshops by day - Jams, concerts and dancing at night!

$575 per adult. Early payment discount available until April 30!